EPISODE 3.8
“Oh, that’s because I don’t know what’s going on yet..” Han replied timidly.
“Don’t be ridiculous. One of the deputies is busy, so I’m helping you out, but it’s your job, after all. You know the drill. If you don’t know, you can look it up in your work file.”
She don’t know. She realized now that Kim has been in charge of the project since Cha rushed off before it could get going because she called her adoptive parents to protest her marriage to Cha Ye-bin.
How can she do it alone when she doesn’t even know which direction it’s going in…
“Ms. Han, you blew your PPT materials before, so the planning team sent them back to you. We’re having a meeting at 3 pm today, so you can finish them by then!”
Park Young-ji, who usually acted like a big sister, threw a file iron on the desk with a cold voice and returned to her desk. This was the part where she had promised to help, but she suddenly left the file iron behind. Han was about to grab her when she heard Mr. Choi poke his head out of the distance and call out to her.
“Deputy Han, come over here for a minute.”
“Yes!”
“The healing project Han was working on right now. I’ll take it all down.”
“What? How am I supposed to do that from scratch…!”
“Get the report back up before lunch today.”
Mr. Choi, who sometimes joked inane jokes, was wearing a fierce face that I had never seen before.
“But Mr. Choi, the Jecheon Style project has just been handed back to Mr. Kim, and Mr. Park is also working on…….”
“Mr. Kim has a lot of deputy work, and he has a lot of trouble handling one deputy case, so I told him to hand it over again. He’s been working overtime lately, so I told him to do his work.”
“Manager, what about me?”
“What about you?”
Mr. Choi’s face crumples at Han Seo-ri’s answer.
“Ms. Han, your team has been doing all your work for you, and ypu are asking what about you? Ms. Kim! And Mr. Park! Does Ms. Han know how many tasks Mr. Kim is working on right now? It’s not like Ms. Han Seo-ri who can use your annual leave or monthly leave. They are working overtime every day!”
Mr. Choi shouted at the top of his lungs, and Han Seo-ri looked at him in bewilderment. Why, why is he so angry? She couldn’t understand. Why would Mr. Choi, who was always smiling and encouraging to his teammates, even brewing them coffee to cheer them up, suddenly get so angry? Mr. Kim had always told her not to worry and to come to her when she had a family emergency, and Mr. Park had laughed that Seo-ri was always fidgety and said she could just redo the PPT. Han Seo-ri couldn’t hide her embarrassment at the team members’ attitude, which had changed drastically.
“Hugh, please stop being angry and let me take Han Seo-ri to talk to her.”
“Mr. Lee…”
“Follow me, Ms. Han Seo-ri.”
Lee sighed heavily and led Han Seo-ri to the employee break room.
“Mr. Lee. I’m so embarrassed. What’s wrong with everyone as soon as I got to work today? Did I do something wrong?”
Han Seo-ri was relieved to hear Lee’s gentle voice, and tears welled up in her eyes. Even if she hadn’t, the shocking realization that she and Cha Yebin were siblings had made it difficult for her to come to work today.
She had tried to take a vacation but was rejected, so she had to muster up the strength to come to work, and as soon as she arrived, she was immediately met with cold stares from her teammates.
And she had a lot of extra work on top of the work she was already doing. Han Seo-ri doesn’t know why her life is a series of trials and tribulations, and she feels very upset and sad. She’s
trying to hold back the tears that threaten to spill out in front of Lee Yoo-jin,
“Oh my God, is that Han Seo-ri? She doesn’t even come to work because she found a guy?”
“Shh, your voice is too loud, do you know who she’s been hooking up with, it’s Vice President Cha Yebin!”
“You mean Vice President Cha?”
“Yes! I didn’t know how she got a deputy position when she’s not even competent……. If being a woman’s beauty itself is a skill, then it can also be called a skill.”
In the employee break room, the employees sitting at the other tables were giggling, laughing, and whispering among themselves as they glanced at Han Seo.
Han Seo was shocked to see her new intern, who had been following her closely, in the middle of it all. She stared at them with a stern expression.
“Ermac, I think she heard everything. I’m scared.”
“What if she runs up to Vice President Cha like that? Will he choke us to death?”
“Hahahaha!”
The male employee waved his hand and pretended to have his neck fall off, and they allwalked out of the employee break room giggling.
“Why, why, everyone!”
“Whoa, Ms. Hansori. It’s fine to be in a relationship, but don’t bother others.”
“Mr Lee!”
“Deputy Han Seo-ri. What’s the latest thing you’ve been working on?”
“It was…….”
“You don’t remember, do you? I don’t know what’s keeping you so busy, but the rest of the team took care of all the work that you couldn’t get done because you were too busy. Don’t you appreciate it?”
“Thanks…….”
“Yeah. You don’t realize that all of this is because of you, do you? You didn’t realize that you’re taking it for granted that we are
taking over the work for you……. As if by magic. Until Ms. Cha reminded us.”
Han Seori, who had been hanging her head in silence, looked at Lee in surprise.
“What did you just say, that Cha Ye Ryun told you?!”
“Ms. Han Seo-ri, who would dare to call the head of the company by her first name like that? I understand that you and Vice President Cha are close, but this is a company! Separate public life from private!”
“I’m sorry……. I’m so surprised. What do you mean, Ms Cha… told me about this?”
Her face turned pale at his next words. He added more words in broken accent, but Han Seo-ri’s ears were already deaf. She jumped to her feet and rushed out of the employee break room. As she hurriedly walked toward the vice president’s office, Lee’s words replayed over and over in her head.
